XilinxFPGACloudwithAmazon---byFayeHong

Amazon has announced the addition of Xilinx FPGAs to their cloud services which is a significant milestone for FPGAs in general, and Xilinx in particular.

Amazon is definitely not the first company to offer FPGA cloud services, but they are one of the largest. Microsoft uses them internally but does not yet offer them to their customers. Amazon, on the other hand, built custom servers to enable them to offer new public F1 Elastic Cloud instances supporting up to eight 16nm Xilinx Ultrascale+ FPGAs per instance.

This may be a major design win over Altera. Xilinx has also focused on providing highly scalable solutions, with support for PCIe and other capabilities such as the CCIX interconnect. Xilinx has also focused on providing highly scalable solutions, with support for PCIe and other capabilities such as the CCIX interconnect.